Method of producing pile fabric



Dec.. 1, 1936. HQLLAND 2,062,884

METHOD OF PRODUCING PILE FABRIC Filed Feb. 8, 1935 unu u-uv IUI T INVENTOR.

ATTORNEY Patented Dec. 1, 1936 UNITED STATES AENT orrics jf METHOD OF PRODUCING PILE FABRIC Arthur G. Holland, Bridgeport, Conn., assignor to Sidney Blumenthal & Co. Inc., New York, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application February 8, 1935, Serial No. 5,588

4 Claims. (Cl. 139-391) This invention relates to a method of produccated at 4, Fig. 1, the engraved portions of the ing a pile fabric, and particularly such a fabric ,roll being shown at 5 and the high portion at 6; in which the pile is composed of narrow strips of the fabric itself being designated by the numeral cellulosic material, such as cellophane, or the 1, and shown as being moved in the direction of 5 like. the arrow. It has been found satisfactory to An object of the invention is to provide such a pass the fabric 1 beneath the roll 4 at ordinary 5 fabric having a very attractive sparkling effect room temperature and with no more pressure on when viewed from any angle. the roll than is usual in the printing of colored A further object is to provide a method of designs on a fabric, which may be, for instance,

10 making and treating a cellophane pile fabric in merely the pressure resulting from the weight of 10 order to interrupt the regular lines of pile so as the roll. The high p 6 0f the T011 acts t d to give the fabric a sparkling appearance. over certain irregularly disposed individual ends .A still further object consists in providing cerof the pile strips, in such a way that the bent tain improvements in the form, construction and over portio remain Substantially in the D arrangement of the parts, in the materials emtion to which they a t, as d ed a 8, 15

ployed, and in the steps followed, whereby the and th s b nt v r p rti s th present an above named and other objects may effectively appr i l fla rf are whic ives an be attained. attractive sparkling effect to the fabric as a Referring to the drawing: Whole when viewed from any direction. In ac- Fig. 1 represents a perspective view of a pile tual practice it is found that only certain ones of 20 fabric being treated in accordance with the prest p S p Which are Opposite the raised p ent invention; 6 of the roll are acted on in the manner just Fig. 2 represents a top plan view of portion described, so that the sparkling appearance of of the fabric, several times enlarged; and the fabric seems to have little relation to the Fig. 3 represents a vertical section taken along design engraved on the T011 but t iS si ab e the line III-III of Fig, 2, looking in th di that this design be relatively fine and irregular, 25 tion of the arrows, in order to ensure the resulting irregularity in As illustrated herein, the fabric is made in d stri n f t t v p tr ps.

accordance with the usual practice customarily The backing threads I d 2 y desirably followed in the manufacture of transparent velbe c mp s d of lk, ut other at a s, su as 30 Vets, the weave being the usual six pick arranger y n r tton r combinations of these mament. The backing threads comprise warp terials might also be used if desired. The strips threads I and weft threads 2, the latter being f l ph or h l hav rally a thickdisposed in groups of three, with a cellophane ness of about .001 inch and may be of any desired warp pile strip 3 looped around each three weft Width, a Width 0f inch having e found 35 threads in the form of a W, as clearly shown in Suitable, the P haViIlg a height 0f pp oxi at Fig. 3. In a pile fabric of the sort just described, y inch, and the bent Over P o stitutthe cellophane ile normally stands stiffly erect, in ally s t an a f the t tal h ht f the so that a top View of the fabric reveals only relap ee dimensions j given a i tended to 4,0 tively regular lines across the width of the fabric be illustrative only, since it will readily b p 40 corresponding to the cut upper ends of the pile ciated that strips of cellophane, or the like, of strips. Owing to the very small ar a of th e different sizes could be treated in substantially cut ends, the fabric, as a whole, has a rather dull t Sa y W the Similar e t- The fabric appearance. above described is of such a nature as to be use- 5 In many faces it is desirable to take advantage u pa y for the trimming of ats and of the natural shiny surface of the cellophane dresses, but it retains its desirable characterispile strips, and it has been found that the ends tics suficiently to make it useful in most of the of certain pile strips may be permanently bent places where ordinary transparent velvet might over to a position approaching parallelism with otherwise be used. the back of the fabric. This bending over may It will be understood that various changes may be accomplished very readily by passing the out be resorted to in the form, construction and arpile fabric, in either finished or unfinished conrangement of the several parts, in the materials dition, beneath an ordinary fabric printing roll; employed, and in the steps followed, without dethe roll being of course, clean and free from any parting from the spirit and scope of my invendie or ink. A printing roll of this sort is indition; and hence I do not intend to be limited to the details herein shown and described, except as they may be included in the claims.

What I claim is:

l. The method of making a pile fabric which includes, providing a fabric having a cut cellophane pile and passing said fabric beneath a roll having high and low surface areas, whereby irregularly distributed individual piles are bent over toward parallelism with the plane of the fabric.

2. The method of making a pile fabric which includes, providing a fabric having a cut cellophane pile and passing said fabric beneath a roll having high and low surface areas, the pressure on the roll being no greater than that used in printing colored designs on a pile fabric, whereby irregularly distributed individual piles are bent over toward parallelism with the plane of the fabric.

phane pile and passing said fabric beneath a roll having high and low surface areas, the pressure on the roll being no greater than that used in printing colored designs on a pile fabric and the roll and fabric being at normal room temperature, whereby irregularly distributed individual piles are bent over toward parallelism with the plane of the fabric.

ARTHUR G. HOLLAND. 

